All Those Able to Breathe Breathing

15 hrs. 53 min.

Language Russian

Author Linor Goralik

Narrator Gennady Smirnov

Description

Lинор Горaлік’s new novel will pull out from us everything most terrible and most beautiful—and bring it into the light.

When a tragedy happens in the country—“ason”: cities are destroyed, and there aren’t enough small yellow pills that help with the exhausting "rainbow disease" with its constant headaches; when the country has for the first time lost a war on its own territory; when no one can help it, no matter how hard they try; when, finally, at any moment from the desert “bush-a-ve-hirpa” can crawl in—“shame and disgrace,” a layered storm that peels skin off and makes a person feel shame for their own existence on Earth—who could care about dogs and parrots, cats and falabellas, camels and bearded-crested lizard-like beasts of Bersen? No one—if only a cat didn’t come up to you, look into your eyes with rainbow eyes, and say, “Head hurts, head hurts.” This is ason, its fifth sign—animals of Israel spoke.

They didn’t become, like in fairy tales, wise, rational, enlightened (or did they?)—they just can say, “Head hurts, head hurts” or “I don’t love you”—and that changes everything. The author of the novel "Все, способные дышать дыхание" (All Capable of Breathing Breath), the writer Linor Goralik, says that the main character of her audiobook should be empathy. If that’s true, then ason is preparing empathy for trials that may prove too hard even for it.